The Myth Of American Democracy

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Source;  https://thedailyconspiracy.com/2018/03/30/the-myth-of-american-demo...

I know I might be preaching to the choir here, but there are some things I need to get off my chest. As proven for the one-thousandth time by our recently increased $700 billion military budget, the United States is neither a successful republic nor a functional democracy. We are all familiar with the concept behind duck identification: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. With that in mind, consider how an elite controlled, globally oppressive military state would look. How would such an apparatus sound?

If I could accomplish one goal by writing this, it would be to inform progressives and conservatives that both of their causes fall on their government’s deaf ears.

As a young researcher during my undergraduate career, after studying the topics of linguistic markers and political persuasion, I had come up with a methodology to compare political speeches during times of war to speeches during times of peace. The idea came to a sputtering, premature conclusion when a single fact was revealed: We’ve never stopped being at war or on our way to a new one. I had no sample of a peaceful time.

A country that is really an elite controlled force for exploiting global wealth would probably always be at war. As evidence, I submit that the United States played vital roles in the following conflicts:

The Chickamunga War (1776–1795), Northwest Indian War (1785–1793), Quasi-War (1798–1800), First Barbary War (1801–1805), Tecumseh’s War(1811), War of 1812 (1812–1815), Creek War (1813–1814), Second Barbary War (1815),First Seminole War (1817–1818),Texas–Indian Wars (1820–1875), Arikara War (1823), Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations (1825–1828), Winnebago War (1827), Black Hawk War (1832), Second Seminole War (1835–1842), Aroostook War (1838), Mexican–American War (1846–1848), Cayuse War (1847–1855), Apache Wars (1851–1900), Puget Sound War (1855–1856), Rogue River Wars (1855–1856), Third Seminole War (1855–1858), Yakima War (1855–1858), Second Opium War (1856–1859), Utah War (1857–1858),Navajo Wars (1858–1866), First and Second Cortina War (1859–1861), Paiute War (1860), American Civil War (1861–1865), Yavapai Wars (1861–1875),Colorado War (1863–1865), Shimonoseki War (1863–1864), Modoc War (1872–1873), Red River War (1874–1875),Las Cuevas War (1875), Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876–1877), Yaqui Wars (1896–1918), Second Samoan Civil War (1898–1899), Spanish–American War (1898), Philippine–American War (1899–1902), Border War(1910–1919), Occupation of Nicaragua (1912–1933), Occupation of Veracruz (1914), Occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), Occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), World War I (1914–1918), Russian Civil War (1918–1920), World War II (1939–1945), Korean War (1950–1953), Laotian Civil War (1953–1975), Vietnam War (1965–1973/75), Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975), War in South Zaire (1978), Lebanese Civil War (1982–1984, Tanker War (1987–1988), Invasion of Panama (1989–1990), Gulf War (1990–1991),Kosovo War (1998–1999), War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Iraq War (2003–2011), War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present), War in Somalia (2007–present), American-led intervention in Libya (2011), American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2017), American-led intervention in Syria (2014–present), Yemeni Civil War (2015–present).

The previous list actually omits quite a few acts of aggression – but I think the point is made. (We’re real conspiracy theorists…)

There is an old joke about the Roman Empire conquering the world out of self-defense – expanding borders to defend borders – that could be updated into a United States joke. Would that feigned cry about potential danger be the sound of an elite controlled mechanism to exploit global wealth?  Would the sound be of bickering parties and divisive century-old debates that never fall out of importance? Would we hear about porn stars and scary Mexicans while politicians vote for every future American born to be more indebted to a military machine than the prior generation?

We just witnessed an election where the left-leaning candidate was a Wall Street purchased shill who voted for American youth to be shipped off to Iraq, which happened to cost the American taxpayer $2.4 trillion. The outsider candidate, the one supposed to change the Republican Party and American politics in general, just endorsed the largest military budget increase in history.  Although I’m not a Bernie Sanders like socialist, nearly all of the senator’s wildest spending dreams could have been accomplished with the money spent in Iraq. Free college for every American is estimated to cost $75 billion. Remember, in an elite controlled, globally oppressive military state, there is never enough money for infrastructure and social programs – but always enough for the next conquest.

We often skewer leftists on this site – appropriately – but how dare we call them fools while standing, dumb eyed and ignorant, as the money we argue about is used in a ceaseless effort to monopolize world markets. We argue against minimum wage increases, like a slave impressing their master with their ability to toil with a smile, while our government builds new weapons with which to kill new brown people. We condemn social programs like food stamps while we maintain military bases in 70 countries and have dropped bombs on over 30 countries since World War 2.  Long story short, we’re all fools.